Lay participation in social change By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Dated 19 April 2009, the CBCP issued a Pastoral Exhortation, one key call therein is the active and concerted participation of the Catholic lay faithful in the social change of the Philippine national community, specifically such as in matter…
A vital union for Pinoy cyclists By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE last of the Marlboro Tours was run in 1998 and won by the diminutive Valenzuela City resident Warren Davadilla. After that, many national tours emerged after three years of absence in multi-stage racing but with different titles. The…
The partylist racket By Ermin Garcia Jr. At the rate things are going in government and politics, plus the recent ruling of the Supreme Court re entitlement of partylists in the House of Representatives, governance in our benighted land has definitely gone haywire. Ever since the Abalos Comelec took over,…
Gilbert Teodoro ‘most fit’ for president By Jun Velasco OVER a cup of coffee, our friend media executive Jera Sison, son of our late friend, Jess Sison, disputed reports shared by former Speaker Joe de V, former President Erap and even Bishop Oscar Cruz that there would be no elections…
Manny talks By Gonzalo Duque OUR activities at the Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) have given us interesting opportunities while hobnobbing with the great and near-great with ideas sprouting like pop corn that hopefully could lead to the formulation of a national sports development program. Do we see Pangulo smiling?…
Not only Pacquiao is world-class By Al S. Mendoza Happy birthday to Dicks Estrada, the assessor of my hometown Mangatarem, and Mangatarem Mayor Teddy Cruz, who will both celebrate tomorrow, April 27. Here’s a wish that many, many more years would come as you are both men of faith and…
Party-list representatives By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. ”The party-list representatives shall constitute twenty per centum of the total number of representatives including those under the party-list. For three consecutive terms after the ratification of this Constitution, one half of the seats allocated to party-list representatives shall be filled, as…
Bitter sweet By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FILIPINO boxing buffs who came to watch personally the world title fights of our very own Brian Villoria and Nonito Donaire, Jr. at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City went out from the Big Dome with a big smile. Yes, and also the…
When a ‘word war’ serves a purpose By Ermin Garcia Jr. The protracted word war between the country’s prosecutors and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency was inevitable as was in the case of the ‘Alabang Boys’ case. That the word war did not happen sooner is what should actually surprise…
Overqualified By Jun Velasco THERE are a few bigots, they who can’t go beyond the literal, who lament the fact that the organizers of the now world famous Bangus Festival “are creating a mountain out of a molehill, the aquatic animal called bangus.” Why do you sing paeans to that…
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